Carrageenan, also known as carrageenan, deer horn alga, is a kind of polymer hydrophilic polysaccharide extracted from red algae, with high economic value, is one of the world's three major seaweed gum industrial products (jeongan, carrageenan, brown alga). Carrageenan is a food additive, and food grade carrageenan is white to light yellow brown, wrinkled surface, slightly shiny translucent flake or powder, odorless and tasteless, taste slimy
Testing Projects |
Quality Sandard |
Test Results |
Sensory requirements |
-- |
White powder |
Mesh size |
95% passed the 80mesh |
Confirm |
2-
Sulfate ( count as SO4 )/% |
15~40 |
31.00% |
Viscosity/mpa·s |
≥5 mpa·s |
114.0 |
Moisture |
≤12.0 |
10.64 |
Total ash content |
15~40 |
20 |
Potassium gel strength
(g/cm²) |
≥1200 g/cm² |
1500 |
Water gel strength (g/cm²) |
/ |
200 |
Whiteness |
/ |
70 |
Transparency |
/ |
96.00% |
pH |
8--11 |
8.61 |
Arsenic (mg/kg) |
≤3 |
Confirm |
Lead (mg/kg) |
≤5 |
Confirm |
Cadmium (mg/kg) |
≤2 |
Confirm |
Mercury (mg/kg) |
≤1 |
Confirm |
Total plate count (CFU/g) |
≤5000 |
<100 |
E. coli (CFU/g) |
<3 |
Negative |
Salmonella (25g) |
Negative |
Negative |
ApplicationCarrageenan is widely used in food industry because of its good water retention, thickening, emulsification, gelling and safety and non-toxic characteristics, widely used in the manufacture of jelly, ice cream, cakes, soft candy, canned meat products, eight-precious congee, , soup food, cold food and so on
Packing25KG BAG/DRU